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Statistical Decision Theory. Lionel Weiss . New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961. Pp. viii, 195. $7.50. Reviewed by Simeon Berman An Introduction to Linear Statistical Models. Volume I. Franklin A. Graybill . New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961. Pp. xiii, 463. $12.50. Reviewed by William G. Cochran Time Series Analysis. E. J. Hannan . (Methuen's Monographs on Applied Probability and Statistics, General Editor: M. S. Bartlett.) New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1960. Pp. viii, 152. $3.50. Reviewed by Emanuel Parzen Markov Learning Models for Multiperson Interactions. Patrick Suppes and Richard C. Atkinson . Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1960. Pp. xii, 296. $8.25. Reviewed by C. J. Burke Transmission of Information. R. M. Fano . New York: John Wiley and Sons, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1961. Pp. viii, 389. $7.50. Reviewed by Amiel Feinstein Sensory Communication. Walter A. Rosenblith, Editor. New York: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and John Wiley and Sons, 1961. Pp. xiv, 844. $16.00. Reviewed by L. H. Koopmans An Introduction to Longitudinal Statistical Analysis. Nathan Goldfarh , Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1960. Pp. v, 220. $5.00. Reviewed by Harper W. Boyd, Jr. The Economic Impact of Federal Loan Insurance. George F. Break . Washington, D. C: National Planning Association, 1961. Pp. ix, 270. $3.75. Paper. Reviewed by Paul H. Cootner The Postwar Residential Mortgage Market. Saul B. Klaman . Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1961. Pp. xxxi, 301. $7.50. Reviewed by Richard F. Muth Essays in Economics and Econometrics. A Volume in Honor of Harold Hotelling. Ralph W. Pfouts, Editor . Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1960. Pp. xi, 240. $7.50. Reviewed by S. Chakravarty Planning for India: Selected Exploration in Methodology. Ragnar Frisch . (Indian Statistical Series No. 8.) Calcutta and New York: Asia Publishing House and Statistical Publishing Society, 1960. Pp. iii, 86. $6.00. Reviewed by Paul B. Simpson Spatial Variation. Bértil Matern . Meddelanden Från, Statens Skogsforsknengsinstitut, 1960. Pp. 144. 8 kr. Paper. Reviewed by Donald M. Robeets The Rhetoric of Science: A Methodological Discussion of the Two-by-Two Table. Roy G. Francis . Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1961. Reviewed by Ruth Z. Gold Professional Manpower and Education in Communist China. Leo A. Orleans . Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1961. Pp. xii, 260. (For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C.) $2.00. Reviewed by Richard Lindeman Anuario Estatistica do Brasil, 1959. Conselho National de Estatistica , Rio de Janeiro, 1959. Pp. 497. Paper. No price listed. Reviewed by Lawrence W. Witt Anuario Estatistica do Brasil, 1960. Conselho Nacional de Estatistica , Rio de Janeiro, 1960. Pp. 430. Paper. No price listed. Includes a separate appendix, O Brasil em Numeros. Pp. 149. Paper. Reviewed by Lawrence W. Witt Direct Measurement of Cyclical-Trend. (Technical Paper 3.) Dudley J. Cowden . Chapel Hill: School of Business Administration, University of North Carolina, 1961. Pp. vi, 90. $1.50. Paper. Reviewed by T. A. Yancey Tables of Polynomial Moving-Average Weights for Estimating the Cyclical-Trend of Time Series Containing a Seasonal Component. (Technical Paper 2.) Dudley J. Cowden . Chapel Hill: School of Business Administration, University of North Carolina, 1961. Pp. iii, 21. $.50. Paper. Reviewed by T. A. Yancey The Changing Competitive Position of Department Stores in the United States by Merchandise Lines. Robert D. Entenberg . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 1961. Pp. xvi, 196. $6.95. Reviewed by Eugene R. Beem Forecasting and Estimating. Marvin Tummins and William B. Trenor . Charlottesville, Virginia: Virginia Council of Highway Investigation and Research, 1961. Pp. ix, 96. No price listed. Paper. Reviewed by Henry Anderson Mathematical Models and Methods in Marketing. Frank M. Bass, et al., Editors . Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1961. Pp. xi, 545. $8.50. Reviewed by John M. Rathmell Business and Economic Forecasting. Milton H. Spencer, Colin G. Clark, and Peter W. Hoguet . Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1961. Pp. xii, 412. $7.95. Reviewed by W. H. Locke Anderson Tables of Thomson Functions and Their First Derivatives. L. N. Nosova . (Text translated from the Russian by Prasenjit Basu.) Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1961. Pp. 422. $20.00 Tables for the Distribution and Density Functions of t -Distribution (“Student's” Distribution). N. V. Smirnov, Editor . (Translated from the Russian by Prasenjit Basu.) Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1961. Pp. 129. $12.50 Industrial Dynamics. Jay W. Forrester . New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1961. Pp. xv, 464. $18.00 Handbook of Automation, Computation, and Control. Volume 3: Systems and Components. Eugene M. Grabbe, Simon Ramo, and Dean E. Wooldridge, Editors . New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1961. $19.75 The Mathematical Theory of Linear Systems. B. M. Brown . (Automation and Control Engineering Series, Edited by John F. Coales.) New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1961. Pp. xv, 267. $8.00 Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems. Dunstan Graham and Duane McRuer . New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1961. Pp. xiii, 482. $9.75 Tables of Weber Functions, Volume 1. I. Ye. Kireyeva and K. A. Karpov . (Translated by Prasenjit Basu.) Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1961. Pp. xxiv, 340. $20.00 Sequential Decoding. John M. Wozencraft and Barney Reiffen . New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., and The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961. Pp. v, 74. $3.75 Finite-Difference Methods for Partial Differential Equations. George E. Forsythe and Wolfgang R. Wasow . New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1960. Pp. x, 444. $11.50 Workbook in Business and Economic Statistics. William A. Spurr and Charles P. Bonini . Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1961. Pp. viii, 277. $4.25. Paper Dynamic Optimization and Control: A Variational Approach. Walerian Kipiniak . New York. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1961. Pp. x, 233. $4.95 Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1961. Eighty-second Edition. United States Bureau of the Census . Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1961. Pp. xii, 1037. $3.50 Employment and Earnings Statistics for the United States 1909–60. United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics . Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office, 1961. $3.00. Paper